what do you do when your child naps?????

[mommy of 4 kids]

i'm just wondering what do you do when oyur child falls asleep for their nap. i try to catch up with one on one time with my 8 year old or i do the dishes or wash some clothes. what do you do? do you do the same things i do when your kids go down for their nap. oh ya your don't have to answer to this thread if you don't want to if you think i'm in your business. but i don't want to be in your business. as i said before you don't have to answer to this thread if you don't want to. I'm just wondering if you do the same things i do when your kids go down for their nap time.

[byronsmom]

i throw a load in the wash, and go on my spinning bike for a hr. byron sleeps for 3 hrs so i get my work out and have time to cool down before he wakes up. i try to do it everyday even on the weakend . still trying to rid myself of baby wieght.

[freckles]

You name it, I do it! lol After my happy dance I clean, draw, spend time with my 7 yr old, internet, clean, eat, prep for dinner, clean, make calls because it is more quiet, clean....

[mommy of 4 kids]

Byronsmom how old is your is your son by any chance? my kids ages are 8 years 5 years 3 years and 5 1/2 months. well you do try to catch up on some clean clothes. and he sleeps for 3 hrs wow that's alot of hrs that he slepp my kids i wish that they sleep for 3 or at least 4 hours they sleep 2 hours and my 3 year old is up crying for daddy they fall asleep at 12:00 P.M. and don't wake up till 2:00 P.M.

[mommy of 4 kids]

You name it, I do it! lol After my happy dance I clean, draw, spend time with my 7 yr old, internet, clean, eat, prep for dinner, clean, make calls because it is more quiet, clean....



i try to pre-make or make dinner all the way and then when time comes i just throw it in the oven, girll,etc. My 8 year old takes a 35 or 45 minute cat nap. but my 3 year old is up crying badly for daddy i don't know why he does this he knows he comes back at 6 or 7 P.M. i'm getting off subject. but i try to wash some dirty clothes i try to do the dishes i try to make house calls when my 3 of my 4 aren't awake i can't make house calls when my 5 year old is awake cause if she isn't in my sight then she cries for me. i also try to take a 1 1/2 hour nap so i'm tried taking care of 4 kids who need me but mostly my 5 1/2 month old needs me nmore caue she's teething. opps off subject again

[byronsmom]

Byronsmom how old is your is your son by any chance? my kids ages are 8 years 5 years 3 years and 5 1/2 months. well you do try to catch up on some clean clothes. and he sleeps for 3 hrs wow that's alot of hrs that he slepp my kids i wish that they sleep for 3 or at least 4 hours they sleep 2 hours and my 3 year old is up crying for daddy they fall asleep at 12:00 P.M. and don't wake up till 2:00 P.M.

byron's 16 months, very active all day. he's always been a great sleeper. sleeps for 3 hrs from noon till 3, goes to bed at 7:30 and sleeps till 6:30. i am very lucky.

[mommy of 4 kids]

byron's 16 months, very active all day. he's always been a great sleeper. sleeps for 3 hrs from noon till 3, goes to bed at 7:30 and sleeps till 6:30. i am very lucky.



yes. You are very lucky to have a 16 month old and have him active all day long. I try to tried them out when they come into mommy room at 6:30 or 7:00 A.M. I try to get them fed for brakefast and then dressed to go out side to play in the back yard and then the park at 11:00 or 11:15 A.M. then back home at 11:45 or 11:55 A.M. and we have lunch at the park and then back at home i need to change them into new clothes cause they love to roll round in the dirt if they need a bath they a quick shower and a hair washing. but no matter how hard i try to get them to fall at noon and have them wake up at 4 or 5 and i don't care if they fall asleep at mid-night and them wake up at 8 or 9 in the morning if i could i'll love a 2 or 3 or 4 hour nap. but do try to get a nap cause it's like you have no time to sit down only for 3 hours cause of byron if you could would you try to put in a nap cause you have no time to nap cause your on your feet all day until noon.

[freckles]

mommy of 4 kids You are very busy! I usually clean and chop my veggies for prepping dinner...it all adds up doesnt it?! I do my dishes in the morning because I have rested and besides, after cooking, inhaling food, picking sippy cups off the floor 20 times, playing, clean up, bath, brush teeth, I dont want to do the dishes.

[mommy of 4 kids]

Freckles i'm busy all day long i'll tell you my days routine the kids come into my room my 3 year old and 5 year old and 8 year old (my 8 year old tries to get my 5 1/2 month old out of her crib if he can) then i get on my robe and make brakefast if the kids are screaming to play out side i just get them dressed to play out side(plus i live in Tampa Florida) so i let them play while my 5 1/2 month old sit in her high chair while i make eggs or ceral like coco puffs, floot loops, cookies crips, etc. and then they come in side eat hafe their meal and go running back out side then i get them into the car after i get my 5 1/2 month old dressed into her day clothes and strap my kids into their car seats my 8 year old is still trying to master buckling himself into his booster seat and then we head off to the park and we have lunch at the park and we leave the park at 11:45 or 11:55 A.M. and since they love to roll around in the dirt and when we come home who ever is the most dirtest gets their shower first and i wash their hair and then their body and get them dressed into most comfortable clothes that i have for them (for the summer that is) and then it's noon so i put my 5 1/2 month old my 3 year old my 5 year old down for their nap and if my 8 year old is tried then i let him sleep in my room on my bed which he is lucky boy cause no one is to go into my room or the couch and he takes a 35 or 45 minute cat nap then i clean my room cause it has clothes throwin' all over the place and wash and clean the bath room my 8 year really feels bad so he helps my sweep up the kittchen or dust the living room table i do the dishes from this morning try to vacuum if i can cause my kids wake up if i even try to vacuum up the house so i sweep up the kittchen i try to spend some one on one time with my 8 year old and i try to catch up on some sleep i sleep for 1 1/2 if i can if i can't take a nap then i make house calls and try to make dinner if i can and yes you are right it does all add up by the time i look it's 2 P.M. time to get my kids up then they play out side and then they come in i tell them not to roll around in the dirt cause i'm not giving them another shower but then they come inside about 3:00 or 3:30 P.M. then they wash their hands and face with soap and water i have to wash my 3 year old and 5 year old face with mild soap that won't burn their little eyes so i baby sampoo and a wash coth i call it a face coth then they play in side till 6 or 7 P.M. and when my hubby comes home he can't even take off his coat and my 3 of 4 kids go running to him for a hug and then i go over with my 5 1/2 month old and he takes her off my hands and i ask him how his day was he kisses me and then (no matter how hard a day he had he stills wants to take the kids off my hands and finish making dinner if i haven't due to time and the kids) then i take a nap till dinner time them my hubby is nice enough to get me up for dinner then my 5 1/2 month old is already fed and gave her last night time bottle and get her dressed in to her PJ's and then in a play pen in me and my husband room then we keep the door a little bit open and by the time it's 7:30 P.M. and time to start his bed time routine and get his toy's cleaned up off the floor and get his bath started and get him out at 7:39 and into his PJ's and get his teeth brushed and off into his bed for bed time story and it's one long book or 2 shorts books and then it's 7:55 and he's down and time to start my 5 year old's bed time routine get her bath started and she gets out at 8:05 P.M. (she has a 5 minute bath she hates bath time and hates her hair wash very much but i have to get her hair washed) after her hair is wash and rised out and get her PJ's on and get her teeth brushed and she's off into her bed for one long story or 2 short stories and it's 8:15 and then my 5 1/2 month old goes into her crib once i shut off the girls light off in their room(they sleep together in the same room but different beds)then my 8 year old goes for his shower and he's out within 5-10 that he went in i can start trusting them by age 7 to take a bath/shower and wash their own hair by them selfs then it's 8:30 then my 8 year old is down and he doesn't like sory time so it's just a kiss and a hug from mommy and daddy and then i tuck him in and turn off the light quickly cause he sleep in the same room as my 3 year old (they share a room as well but different beds) and then i go to bed at mid-night. and happens to be my whole day and my kids are still napping yay but i don't need them to go to bed at mid-night like mommy cause i'm starting them on a school morning routine so they have to get up at 7:00 A.M. cause they start school on the 25th of AUG.

[may2mac]

While my 13 month old sleeps i usually have one on one time with my 4 year old for about an hour. AFter that I jump on the computer for a while. I wish I was more motivated to prepare dinner or clean. The only cleaning I usually get done during nap time is tidying up the kitchen. Nap time is the only "me" time I get.

[freckles]

Whoa! That is one heck of a schedule! I need to get back on track also when my dd starts back 2 school. I wonder if having 4 kids is harder, I know it is, but WAY harder than 3? I think 2 kids, 2 hands. When I had my third child, it was hard to adjust. What do you think mommy of 4?

[mommy of 4 kids]

yes it is one heck of a schedule but when school starts back up it's alot worst but with 2 kids one going into 4th grade and my 5 year old starting kindergarden it's going to be hard cause i have to get 2 kids on the bus on time and then get my 3 year old off to day-care i'm still think on pre-school for him and get my 5 1/2 month old off to no were casue i have her baby-sitter come over to watch her i'm thinking of starting her in day-care soon. and then i leave for work i'm thinking of quting my job and become a kindergarden teacher so i have the entried summer to spend with my kids and i don't have to worry about some one picking up my kids from school cause i won't be back home from schooling till 2:30 or 3:00 and my kids don't come home till 4 or 5 P.M.And if you want to have another kid freckles then have fun cause my youngest is not here yet i'm 18 weeks pregnant with twins and scared to death about losing them i hate family history of miscarriges and having twins. yes having twins if i do lose them i'm having a birth control ring put in cause i don't want to get pregnant again. i thought having 2 kids were hard back when my oldest was 3 at that time and i just had my second child and i was happy and that every thing will be fine and dandy but i was wrong when my 5 year old now was at 2 weeks old at that time she went thru colic and it didn't end till 3 1/2 months of age so i was crying my self to sleep every night and i got the baby blues my hysband was smart enough to take me to see a doctor for it i thought i was going to shake my 2 week old but my husband took her off my hands cause he saw how stressed i was about it. but it got worst when i had to take care of her soon enough i was forgetting about my 1st baby and that was when my husband took me stright to a doctor to have me looked at and i didn't know he made a doctor appointment for me untill he grab the kids put them in their car seats and grabed me and said come with me when the doctor called my name i was like you do see the pain i was going thru he had to come with me cause i was in tears and couldn't talk cause i was so much in stress and very depressed. but i was put on medication for it and the meds help me alot and i joined a mom to mom group at my hospital that i delivered at for both my kids. so it helped me alot. but having 4 kids almost 6 kids i don't know what i can do.

[angiem8705]

So no one else mentioned it but for me when DD is asleep thats time for some fun for DH and myself KWIM. Today i was almost late for work cuz she took her nap late and well girls got needs so as soon as she was asleep DH and i flew upstairs.

But when i am home alone i do that same as everyone else and check emails, clean etc.

[mommy of 4 kids]

Angiem8705 what time do you put your girls down for their nap? And also how old are they? and when your home alone you clean, check emails,etc. you pretty much do as much as what i do.

[freckles]

Angie! lol! You are so honest. What is KWIM? Kissing, Whoopi, Intercourse, and Monkey-love? lol hahahaha

[mommy of 4 kids]

i pretty much didn't get the *KWIM* what does that mean angiem8705? Freckles what you said about *KWIM* i thought that was funny.